Africa’s Digital Revolution: Opportunities & Challenges

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Add to Calendar 2021-05-06 15:00:00 2025-05-24 12:44:28 Africa’s Digital Revolution: Opportunities & Challenges Description Location Policy Center Policy Center Africa/Casablanca public

The Policy Center for the New South recently partnered with the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center on a pair of reports exploring the theme of technology and its impact on Africa’s political and economic future. In its report, The Impact of New Technologies on Employment and the Workforce: What Are the Implications for Developing Countries, Especially in Africa?, the PCNS analyzes the relationship between technology and employment in African labor markets, responding to the question of whether technology will help or hurt the twelve million Africans per year entering the job market. Taking a geopolitical angle in its report, Partnering for Africa’s Digital Future: Opportunities for the United States, South Korea, and India, the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center covers opportunities for cooperation between African nations, South Korea, India, and the United States to advance digital infrastructure and technology in Africa as an alternative to China.

To launch these reports, the Policy Center for the New South and Atlantic Council Africa Center will organize an event on Thursday, May 6 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. (EDT) / 3:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. (GMT) under the banner of Africa’s digital revolution, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of technology, politics, and business.

This panel will take place in English and will be broadcasted live via the PCNS Facebook page and YouTube channel, with live coverage on Twitter.

Event program :

15:00 – 16:15

Africa’s Digital Revolution: Opportunities & Challenges

Chair: Stephanie Wander, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, GeoTech Center, Atlantic Council

Speakers:

Hamza Saoudi, Economist, Policy Center for the New South
Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu, Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council

Discussants:

Jalal Abdel-Latif, Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South
Ali Wyne, Senior Analyst for Global Macro, Eurasia Group

Speakers

Jalal Abdel-Latif

Ethiopia

Senior Fellow

Jalal Abdel-Latif is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South and Senior Social Policy Advisor, Gender and Poverty, Social Policy Division, UNECA. Jalal has over 25 years of professional experience in the areas of corporate social responsibility, civic engagement, grant making, project design and enhancing the capacities of non-profit organizations. He began his career as researcher and capacity analyst at UCLA African studies center, before working as Grants manager for USA for Africa (the We Are the World project) in California. He was also a co-founder and CEO of Inter-Africa Group, a regional think thank.  He was previously appointed by the late Prime Minister of Ethiopia to serve on the Ethiopian Telecommunications Board of Directors to assist in its moderniz ...

Aleksandra Gadzala Tirziu

Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council

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Hamza Saoudi

Senior Economist

Hamza Saoudi is an Economist at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS). He is a graduate engineer from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA). He is currently working on topics related to business cycles, unemployment, inequality and poverty in developing countries. Hamza is also interested in macroeconomic stabilization policies, International Trade and Growth and long-term economic development. Prior to joining the Policy Center for the New South, he contributed to the conception of quantitative models for bank credit risks management. ...